FBI: Thieves behind huge Boston art heist identified but immune from prosecution (PICS)

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/18/fbi-boston-art-thieves-identified-but-immune-from-prosecution/



FBI: Thieves behind huge Boston art heist identified but immune from prosecution
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, March 18, 2013 17:05 EDT

The FBI said Monday that they finally know who conducted a daring art heist in Boston exactly 23 years ago — but the thieves can no longer be prosecuted.

For two decades, the 1990 theft of 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, including rare paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer, has been one of America’s greatest unsolved crimes.

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But there are two big hitches.

First, the thieves who hit the museum dressed as Boston police officers essentially got away with it — because the robbery “occurred 23 years ago, the statute of limitations has run” out, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz told reporters.



unhappycamper comment: Pics of the stolen art:



Vermeer, The Concert




Rembrandt, A Lady and Gentleman in Black




Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee




Rembrandt, Self-Portrait




Govaert Flinck, Landscape with Obelisk




Manet, Chez Tortoni




Degas, La Sortie de Pesage




Degas, Cortege aux Environs de Florence




Degas, Program for an artistic soiree (1)




Degas, Program for an artistic soiree (2)




Degas, Three Mounted Jockeys




Bronze Eagle Finial

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. That Rembrandt painting is the ONLY known seascape ever painted

by the artist.

cheers!

[unhappycamper]

2. I know..

I've been to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum both before and after these paintings were stolen